Word: writer
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Significance. Mr. Firkins hesitates to suggest Howells as elementary schooling in American life for foreigners or students in the 21st Century. He recommends that they begin on "some inferior writer." Similarly, for persons unacquainted with Howells, Mr. Firkins' finely wrought literary study can be read with profit only after preliminary investigation of Howells' own work and of his other commentators. This book is a last critical word...
...most difficult of tasks for a writer is that of changing the public's opinion of him. It is true not only of writers. The clown is forever wanting to play poet. The great decision that many writers, young and old, must make, do make, is to throw over everything in favor of a career of purely creative writing. The metamorphosis of writing from avocation to vocation is apt to involve many pains, bodily as well as mental. I know one boy who has given up the life of a sailor to write poetry. He goes without meals...
...give up law and to change his style of writing, was a difficult one to make. That he has been successful is simply a proof of a determination to succeed which has followed him through life. Having written many books in spare hours, having become known as a writer of stories of law, lawyers, crime, its detection and of humor, he found himself at middle age determined to break with his habits of life and to become a sort of American Galsworthy. He wrote, therefore, His Children's Children,* which caught critical and public fancy. He has followed...
Library, College of William and Mary, Williamsburg, Va. TIME Dec. 20, 1924. New York, N. Y. Gentlemen: In your issue of Dec. 1, you have a disparaging reference to Charles Bellini, the first professor of modern languages in the College of William and Mary. The writer of the item gives the impression that Bellini was one of the vine dressers who accompanied Mazzei, under Jefferson's encouragement, to Albemarle County, Virginia, in 1775; and that after his failure to develop a successful vineyard, Jefferson raised him from the rank of laborer in a vineyard to the position of professor...
padded with a pair of proven actresses (Gail Kane and Elisabeth Risdon), though written by a graduate of Harvard's famed 47 Workshop (Thomas Robinson), one week sufficed to knock this play quite out of competition. It was an aimless story of a writer, his wife, another woman...